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        Plastic Water

        Plastic Water

        Plastic Water

        The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water

        by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race

        ISBN: 9780262029414

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 21, 2015

        How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.
        Liquid Power

        Liquid Power

        Liquid Power

        Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain

        by Erik Swyngedouw

        ISBN: 9780262029032

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 24, 2015

        An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power.
        Contested Water

        Contested Water

        Contested Water

        The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada

        by Joanna L. Robinson

        ISBN: 9780262518390

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 15, 2013

        An examination of anti–water privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global.
        Politics of Urban Runoff

        Politics of Urban Runoff

        Politics of Urban Runoff

        Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City

        by Andrew Karvonen

        ISBN: 9780262516341

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 19, 2011

        A study of urban stormwater runoff that explores the relationships among nature, technology, and society in cities.
        Governing the Tap

        Governing the Tap

        Governing the Tap

        Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water

        by Megan Mullin

        ISBN: 9780262512978

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 21, 2009

        An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.
        Desalination by Reverse Osmosis

        Desalination by Reverse Osmosis

        Desalination by Reverse Osmosis

        Edited by Ulrich Merten

        ISBN: 9780262130301

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 15, 1967

        Desalination of sea- aand brackish water is a problem that has attracted widespread government attention and considerable engineering talent. Since the inception of the U.S. government's formal desalting...
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